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package org.apache.juneau.http;

/**
 * Represents a parsed <l>Content-Length</l> HTTP request/response header.
 * 
 * <p>
 * The length of the response body in octets (8-bit bytes).
 * 
 * <h5 class='figure'>Example</h5>
 * <p class='bcode'>
 * 	Content-Length: 348
 * </p>
 * 
 * <h5 class='topic'>RFC2616 Specification</h5>
 * 
 * The Content-Length entity-header field indicates the size of the entity-body, in decimal number of OCTETs, sent to
 * the recipient or, in the case of the HEAD method, the size of the entity-body that would have been sent had the
 * request been a GET.
 * <p class='bcode'>
 * 	Content-Length    = "Content-Length" ":" 1*DIGIT
 * </p>
 * 
 * <p>
 * An example is...
 * <p class='bcode'>
 * 	Content-Length: 3495
 * </p>
 * 
 * <p>
 * Applications SHOULD use this field to indicate the transfer-length of the message-body, unless this is prohibited by
 * the rules in section 4.4.
 * 
 * <p>
 * Any Content-Length greater than or equal to zero is a valid value.
 * Section 4.4 describes how to determine the length of a message-body if a Content-Length is not given.
 * 
 * <p>
 * Note that the meaning of this field is significantly different from the corresponding definition in MIME, where it is
 * an optional field used within the "message/external-body" content-type.
 * In HTTP, it SHOULD be sent whenever the message's length can be determined prior to being transferred, unless this is
 * prohibited by the rules in section 4.4.
 * 
 * <h5 class='section'>See Also:</h5>
 * <ul class='doctree'>
 * 	<li class='extlink'><a class='doclink' href='https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html'>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</a>
 * </ul>
 */
public final class ContentLength extends HeaderInteger {

	/**
	 * Returns a parsed <code>Content-Length</code> header.
	 * 
	 * @param value The <code>Content-Length</code> header string.
	 * @return The parsed <code>Content-Length</code> header, or <jk>null</jk> if the string was null.
	 */
	public static ContentLength forString(String value) {
		if (value == null)
			return null;
		return new ContentLength(value);
	}

	private ContentLength(String value) {
		super(value);
	}
}
